Francesco Corman received his MS degree in management engineering from Roma Tre University in 2006 and his PhD degree from the Delft University of Technology in 2010. He is currently the Chair of the Transport Systems (Assistant Professor) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, with main responsibilities in research and education in transport systems with a particular focus on analytics and optimization methods for railways, public transport and logistics system and their interconnection, with special focus on their operations.